Law's moving image

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film through three main themes:A Fantastic Jurisprudence explores representations of law in lawLaw, Aesthetics and Visual Technologies focuses on the visual aspects of law's moving imageRegulation: Histories, Cultures, Practices brings together work on different dimensions and contexts of regulation, censorship, state subsidies and intellectual property to explore.

1. Heavenly justice / Ian Christie -- 2. Once more unto the breach: Branagh's Henry V, Blair's war and the UK constitution / Eugene McNamee -- 3. 'It's the vibe!': the common law imaginary down under / William P MacNeil -- 4. Rebel without a cause? / Elena Loizidou -- 5. Toy law, toy joy, toy story 2 / Fred Botting and Scott Wilson -- 6. On realism and the law film: the case of Oscar Wilde / Leslie J Moran -- 7. Trial as documentary: images of eichmann / Lawrence douglas -- 8. Film and law: in search of a critical method / David M Seymour -- 9. Endless streets, pursued by ghosts / Angus MacDonald -- 10. 'Into the bule': the cinematic possibility of judgment with passion / Alison Young -- 11. Not harmless entertainment: state censorship and cinema in the transitional era / Lee Grieveson -- 12. The natives are looking: cinema and censorship in colonial India / M Madhava Prasad -- 13. Rethinking regulation: violence and 1967 Hollywood / J David Slocum -- 14. Cultural 'patronage' versus cultural 'defence': althernatives to national film policies / Bill Grantham -- 15. How the movie moguls learned to stop worrying and love the new technologies: copyight and film / Fiona Macmillan -- 16…